The Boy in the Dream: A Story of a Shared Nightmare

True Scary Story

Scary Stories

Society & Culture, Arts, Personal Journals

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Today we'll hear from Jasmine and Erika. The events starts with childhood sleep paralysis that escalates into visions, voices, and a dark figure. It is believed that it followed her into adulthood. But when a child begins seeing the same presence, and even her neighbors report identical sightings, we realize that this haunting may be far more real (and more dangerous) than previously imagined.
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0:24.9	The home of your kind of cozy, Denelm.
0:27.8	The home of homes.
0:32.9	He comes running out, screaming.
0:36.6	Mommy!
0:37.2	I'm like, what?
0:39.3	There's a man in your closet.
0:41.3	Today we'll hear a series of stories that have been kept for years.
0:46.3	Stories of a certain sensitivity to the unseen that follows from home to home.
0:52.3	My name is Edwin. And here is Jasmine's and Erica's true, scary story.
1:06.2	I'm Erica, and my story with the paranormal begins when I was about six years old.
1:15.6	This would be late 90s is when I had my first experience.
1:23.6	I was living in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1:30.3	We lived in this house that I would say had a lot of activity on its own, but my experience
1:39.3	actually happened in my bedroom one night when I couldn't fall asleep.
1:45.0	I don't know what it was.
1:46.0	Something in the air just kept me up,
1:48.0	you know, more like something's gonna happen.
1:51.0	I remember looking out of my window from my bed,
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